Walter Bascom Munson

b. 6 February 1866, d. 9 August 1949
Walter Bascom Munson|b. 6 Feb 1866\nd. 9 Aug 1949|p2713.htm|Mordello Stephen Munson|b. 25 Apr 1825\nd. 13 Oct 1903|p113.htm|Sarah Kimbrough Armour|b. 3 Sep 1831\nd. 31 Jan 1887|p114.htm|Henry W. Munson|b. 15 Jan 1793\nd. 6 Oct 1833|p2528.htm|Ann B. Pearce|b. 17 Apr 1800\nd. 6 Sep 1865|p2532.htm|Solomon H. Armour|b. s 1800\nd. 21 Dec 1833|p11510.htm|Sarah A. H. Waddy|b. 1811\nd. 5 May 1864|p11511.htm|

1st cousin of George Poindexter Munson Sr.
1st cousin 2 times removed of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Munson and Allied Families
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Bascom Munson
     Walter Bascom Munson was born on 6 February 1866 at Bailey's Prairie, Brazoria County, Texas.2,1 He was the son of Mordello Stephen Munson and Sarah Kimbrough Armour.1 He married Adelaide Augusta Cotton on 20 March 1895 at Shearn Methodist Episcopal Church South, Houston, Harris County, Texas.3,4 He died on 9 August 1949 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, at age 83.1,5,6 He was buried in Angleton Cemetery, Angleton, Brazoria County, Texas.7 Click to view image
     
     Bascom was raised on Ridgely Plantation and attended Texas A&M College, Southwestern University, and the University of Texas Law School. Bascom was very successful in business — ranching, real estate, oil, and banking — and became wealthy. For his wife's health they moved to San Antonio in 1913.6

     Writer's note: Cousin Ellen told me that her father was very protective of his wife and children. He was especially fearful of the diseases that often accompanied the prolonged flooding that was all too common in Brazoria County. Always, he took his family by train to San Antonio when these conditions were eminent. On their way home after one such episode in 1899, Stephen Olin contracted scarlet fever and died at their home in Angleton. (1899 was the year of the greatest Brazos River flood on record.) Bascom was heartbroken, and not being able to bear living in the home where Olin died, gave it to his brother George.

Additional Data
Bascom Munson appeared on the 1 June 1870 Federal Census of Brazoria, Brazoria County, Texas, in the household of his parents, Mordello and Sarah Munson.8 Click to view image

W.B. Munson appeared on the 1 June 1880 Federal Census of Brazoria County, Texas, in the household of his parents, M.S. and S.K. Munson.9 Click to view image

W.B. Munson, an attorney, boarded between 1890 and 1891 with J.M. Means in Houston, Harris County, Texas.10

Walter B. Munson, an attorney whose office address was 1107 1/2 Congress Avenue, boarded between 1892 and 1893 with J.M. Means in Houston, Harris County, Texas.11

Walter B. Munson, an attorney whose office address was 1107 1/2 Congress Avenue, lived between 1894 and 1895 at 1412 Milam in Houston, Harris County, Texas.12

Walter B. and Addie Munson appeared on the 1 June 1900 Federal Census of Brazoria County, Texas, enumerated 19 June 1900.13 Click to view image

Walter B. and Adalade A. Munson appeared on the 15 April 1910 Federal Census of Angleton, Brazoria County, Texas, enumerated 11 May 1910. Their children Ellen and Houston were listed as living with them.14 Click to view image

Walter Bascom Munson appeared on the 1 January 1920 Federal Census of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, enumerated 21 January 1920. His children Ellen and Houston were listed as living with him.15 Click to view image

Walter B. Munson appeared on the 1 April 1930 Federal Census of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, enumerated 9 April 1930. His son Houston C. was listed as living with him, as were his daughter and son-in-law, Ellen and Wendel C. Fowler.16 Click to view image

Children of Walter Bascom Munson and Adelaide Augusta Cotton

Citations

  1. [S1234] Walter Bascom Munson, death certificate 36879 (2 Sep 1949), Texas Department of Public Health, Austin.
  2. [S20] Thurmond A. Williamson, The Munsons of Texas, an American Saga, First Edition manuscript (Dallas: n.pub., 1987), 286.
  3. [S20] Thurmond A. Williamson, Munsons of Texas, 287.
  4. [S434] Munson-Cotton wedding invitation; Laura M. Cooper, 1804 Holm Oak St., Arlington, Texas. Original invitation given to the writer by Mary Kennedy Giesecke.
  5. [S1132] Texas Department of Health, Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000 (Austin: Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, unknown publish date), Walter Bascom Munson entry citing Certificate 36879.
  6. [S20] Thurmond A. Williamson, Munsons of Texas, 288.
  7. [S427] Walter Bascom Munson tombstone, Angleton Cemetery, Angleton, Texas; photographed by the writer on 5 July 2003.
  8. [S53] Mordello Munson household, 1870 U.S. Census, Brazoria County, Texas, population schedule, Brazoria, page 19/503-20, dwelling 139, family 139; National Archives micropublication M593, roll 1576.
  9. [S52] M.S. Munson household, 1880 U.S. Census, Brazoria County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 8, enumeration district (ED) 22, sheet 27C/222, dwelling 274, family 274; National Archives micropublication T9, roll 1292.
  10. [S1138] Houston Directory, 1890-91 (Houston: Morrison & Fourmy, 1890), W.B. Munson entry.
  11. [S1139] Houston Directory, 1892-93 (Houston: Morrison & Fourmy, 1892), Walter B. Munson entry.
  12. [S1140] Houston Directory, 1894-95 (Houston: Morrison & Fourmy, 1894), Walter B. Munson entry.
  13. [S51] Walter B. Munson household, 1900 U.S. Census, Brazoria County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 1, enumeration district (ED) 1, sheet 14B, dwelling 300, family 300; National Archives micropublication T623, roll 1614.
  14. [S50] Walter B. Munson household, 1910 U.S. Census, Brazoria County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 1, Angleton, enumeration district (ED) 4, sheet 12B, dwelling 252, family 263; National Archives micropublication T624, roll 1534.
  15. [S437] Walter Bascom Munson household, 1920 U.S. Census, Bexar County, Texas, population schedule, Laurel Heights, 119 Courtland, San Antonio city, enumeration district (ED) 55, sheet 14A; National Archives micropublication T625, roll 1779.
  16. [S100] Walter B. Munson household, 1930 U.S. Census, Bexar County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 1, Ward 4, block 2248, 119 W. Courtland Place, San Antonio city, enumeration district (ED) 15-76, sheet 2A-20, dwelling 155, family 180; National Archives micropublication T626, roll 2295.